Sep 22nd - Bilbo Baggins celebrated his "eleventy-first" birthday. On the same day Bilbo's cousin, Frodo Baggins, celebrated his 33rd birthday. 📽️📅 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Sep 22nd 1957 - Sheldon Grunwald was driving his vehicle, when he ran into the back of Ms. Rita Filagree. 📽️📅 The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Sep 22nd - The postmark date on a postcard sent by, recent escapee, Andy Dufresne, to Ellis "Red" Redding. 📽️📅 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Sep 22nd 1975 - Howard Beale, a long-time newscaster for UBS, learned he was being fired due to his ratings declining. 📽️📅 Network (1976)

The 1st recorded fiddle contest in the American colonies was held in Hanover County, Virginia (1736) as part of a St. Andrew’s Day celebration. The winner was to claim an Italian made Cremona fiddle.

Not sick of this yet, so let's continue our #BatmanDay celebration into Sunday! Please post more fun and/or cool #Batman panels & covers in reply and I'll repost them with witty and/or insightful comments. #ComicSky

September 22, 1977

September 22, 1958

Good gravy! I almost forgot that @dannyslacks1.bsky.social and I will be hosting a watchalong party this Saturday (the 27th) at 1pm CST. We're watching the awesome 1971 TVM Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate. Use #TVMParty to join the discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et95...

Name at Birth Richard Ewing Powell

“Sparkling muscatel - one of the finest wines of Idaho!”

Can you identify this film?

Leonardo DiCaprio Photographed by David LaChapelle, Hollywood 1996

David James Elliott was born September 21, 1960 in Milton, Ontario, Canada.

September 1991

September 22, 1951

September 22, 1975

September 22, 1997

September 22, 1967

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September 22, 1975

Christina Spartali as The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (1864) by James Whistler (1834-1903).

San Diego Comic Con Program 1978. Cover art by Boris Vallejo.

Clark Gable and Judy Garland

Johnny Ace (1929-1954) was a R&B singer with a string of hits. It was widely reported that Ace killed himself playing Russian roulette. He did point the gun toward himself, bragging that he knew which chamber was loaded. The gun went off, shooting him in the side of the head.

Shirley Feeney's middle name is Wilhelmina.

Robert L. Pike’s Mute Witness was the source material for the Steve McQueen film Bullitt. In the book the main character is named Clancy not Bullitt, and the lead villain is named Rossi not Ross.

Suzanne Somers appears as a model for a deodorant ad in Harold and Maude (1971).

September 21, 1968

Bill Murray was born in Evanston, Illinois on September 21, 1950.

September 21, 1944: Fannie Flagg is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

FINALLY! The video version of our chat. Uplifting and MIND-BOGGLING! "A tragedy can make you bitter or better..." On our Mental Health Podcast, we talk to Microsoft's Naseem Rochette, who was run over by a car 3 times in a few minutes. youtu.be/3-Owc5L4kEg?... #Truestories #kintsugi #survival

September 21, 1948: Milton Berle becomes the permanent host on NBC's TV show "Texaco Star Theater."

September 21, 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' is published by George Allen and Unwin in London.

You have this on the one hand, that on the other hand. That is why you wring your hands.

September 20, 1853: The construction of public buildings is revolutionized when inventor Elisha Otis demonstrates his "safety elevator," which doesn't fall even when its cable is cut.

September 20, 1878: Author Upton Sinclair is born. His muckraking novel The Jungle about the methods and conditions of the Chicago stockyards raised people's ire were his descriptions of grotesquely unsanitary meatpacking methods.

Luke Wilson was born September 21, 1971.

September 21, 1966: Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to "Jimi."

You're not any safer in first class.